That word, air, always makes me think of Michael Jordan.  Air Jordan.  Who earned that nickname by gliding ten feet in the air from foul line to rim, seemingly without effort, capped-off by an imaginative slam-dunk rarely seen by anyone else before.  Or since.

But in this post I’m talking about actual air.  You see, as discussed in previous posts, when the Lord called me to quit my job to devote full-time to memorizing the ENTIRE BIBLE and commit my life savings to this historic project and building this website to chronicle the journey and then using this history-making event to help others in the areas of Bible memory, spiritual growth, additional happiness in this life and eternal treasure and reward in the one to come, and even in physical healing based entirely on simply ingesting (“finding”) the words of God, the Bible (per 1 Timothy 4:8 & 6:6 and especially Proverbs 4:22 – it doesn’t get any clearer than that!), I sold my only car and started relying on my bike and own two feet to get me around town as needed.  While it’s a LOT more work than merely pushing a gas pedal, there have also been some great benefits, like getting back to my high school weight and far more importantly finding that it has been during those walks and bike rides that the Lord has opened my eyes and ears to some amazing truths which I’ll be sharing with you via this online journal (a.k.a., “blog”).

Anyway, I had gotten frighteningly low on groceries so today I rode my bike to the store so I could make it through the next week without dropping to my fetal weight. =)  I hadn’t gotten more than 30 seconds into the trip when I noticed that my bike was far tougher to pedal than before.  Way tougher.  To the point that I was barely moving.  Expending SO MUCH energy and effort but not getting anywhere.

I’m usually extremely careful about biking.  To obey all rules and laws and ordinances, to avoid getting hit by the smartphone/can’t-go-ten-seconds-without-texting crowd of drivers these days, and to maintain its mechanical fitness.  Well, I was quite intent about getting to the store so as to stave off starving tomorrow so I left without doing one thing on the preparatory checklist:  I neglected to check the air in my tires.

And that’s when it hit me that this is EXACTLY how it is in the Christian life, in our walk with the Lord.  How many of us “expend a lot of energy and effort but don’t get anywhere” to speak of, don’t really grow all that much?

The Bible in general and Bible memory in specific is the “air” in the Christian life.

Oh, sure, a bike will move if the tires are low.  But not very much.  And not very effectively or efficiently.  But if you try Bible memory on a regular, systematic basis, you’ll find that you will GLIDE through life.  Like Michael Jordan used to do on the basketball court.  EVERYTHING will become easier, more effective, more efficient.  And bear greater – and tangible – fruit.

So before you leave your home next time to go to work or the store or run some errands, do yourself the biggest favor and DON’T FORGET TO ADD SOME AIR!  Memorize a verse or two, and then recite it throughout the day.  Let it baste beautifully in your brain, in your body, in your heart and soul and mind.  And I assure you that you’ll start to go through life like Michael Jordan on a basketball court.

P.S.  If you aren’t sure how to best memorize Bible verses, stay tuned because the more books of the Bible I memorize, the EASIER it becomes and the greater CAPACITY for even more because of the very specific memory method it is revealing to me, to my mind’s eye, which (believe it or not) also makes it EXCITING AND FUN, and which I can hardly wait to share with you here when that process is complete or at least 95% complete, something like that.  I expect such to occur in the coming months so stay tuned, it’ll CHANGE YOUR LIFE – not just spiritually but also intellectually and emotionally, just watch and see!  (NOTE:  If you’d like to automatically be notified by email when that and other future posts are published, you may do so in “3.” in the Side Panel near the top of this page and at the very bottom.)
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